In that moment the scrutiny of the little man's mind was volatilized, and the Spanische, as she was ultimately called, began her career in the life of the money-master of St.Saviour's.
It began by his immediately resenting the fact that she should be travelling in the forecastle.

His mind imagined misfortune and a lost home through political troubles, for he quickly came to know that the girl and her father were Spanish; and to him, Spain was a place of martyrs and criminals.

Criminals these could not be--one had but to look at the girl's face; while the face of her worthless father might have been that of a friend of Philip IV.

in the Escorial, so quiet and oppressed it seemed.

Nobility was written on the placid, apathetic countenance, except when it was not under observation, and then the look of Cain took its place.